The Asp of Vanity

I was asked a while ago to illustrate for an editorial on new world constructs such as vanity (among many other things) being forced onto the indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin through tourism and expansion. It was a really weird assignment and straight up my alley, but unfortunately because of time restraints I wasn't able to do it (something like a 16 hour turn around). The art direction was pretty loose, but they did want the "new world constructs" to be in a serpentine form. I didn't go through with it enough to even get to a sketching stage, but I had a pretty solid image in my head. I decided that since I have a little free time that I would draw out what I was thinking, and try to color it with this new technique I have been messing around with. I do not think I have been this light on ink in years, and at this point I should have probably just done it all digitally. One of these days I am going to have to get a tabloid scanner. This quick little drawing took almost half an hour to scan in pieces. Pretty lame. Either way, I am going to post my progress in actually coloring this, we will see how it goes.

And as a side note, my apologies to everyone I have ripped off in drawing this. Don't worry, its just for fun.

And as another side note, after running this through spell check I was absolutely amazed to find that I had indeed spelled "indigenous" correctly. I am a miserable speller, if you hadn't noticed by this point.